Best Apps for 2010

Check out the list put together by the Guardian.

I am particularly liking the FOTOPEDIA app.

"Fotopedia, in cooperation with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, is proud to present Fotopedia Heritage, which brings together 20 000 photos, illustrating 890 World Heritage Sites and 3000 points of interests, thanks to the contribution of thousands of photographers and hundreds of curators. It is a free application on iPhone and iPad." (source: http://www.fotopedia.com/products/heritage-info)

The week of my birthday in 1979...

... this was number one on the Billboard.

So much neon fabric... Zoom Zoom Zoom and Boom Boom

A bit of Frank

Blast This!

a little icelandic punk-rap to start the day

Body Browsing

Explore the body with this crazy new web tool!

http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/

What is love... simply a chemical addiction?

This is a more personal entry than my other ones; I seem to have met someone for which things just REALLY clic. I am scared to use the cliché of "love at first sight" (for the more realistic people like me, maybe it should be "lust at first sight"?!) but it seems like this is what people describe.

As papergirl would agree, my romantic track has not been the most stable and it has been a few years since I have had a special someone where timing, feelings, a good level of sanity and even being in the same city actually coincides. So overall, as much as I am beyond excitement at the prospect of spending time with this special new someone, I have big fears.

So putting my utter gittiness aside, I started to wonder "what is love" (and I am not talking about this cheezy song either).

So if you type "what happens when we fall in love" in your favorite web browser, you can start belieiving that the all around answer may be there... You may understanding these crazy internal sensational (hello, butterflies in the stomach anyone??!!).

The first thing that caught my eye was the site howstuffworks.com which would give me the "scientific" explanation. Here is an exerpt: "If you've ever been in love, you've probably at least considered classifying the feeling as an addiction. And guess what: You were right. As it turns out, scientists are discovering that the same chemical process that takes place with addiction takes place when we fall in love."

So the conclusion number one: I have become a closeted drug addict... Great. Is there rehab for this? :)

And then you continue your web search and fall upon old classic french songs with cute little cartoons which almost restores your faith that you are not crazy or on "special" drugs.



I guess the first public "symbol" or gesture that we are attracted to someone is holding hands or kissing. The history of the kiss may require further research but here is the definition of a kiss according to Wikipedia: "A kiss is the act of pressing one's lips against the lips or other body parts of another. Cultural connotations of kissing vary widely. A kiss may be used to express sentiments of love, passion, affection, respect, greeting, friendship, and good luck, among many others. The word came from Old English cyssan "to kiss", in turn from coss "a kiss". The act of kissing has become a common expression of affection among many cultures worldwide. Yet in certain cultures, kissing was introduced only through European settlement; prior to this, kissing was not a routine occurrence."

So on that note, I shall update the blog on my research on the act of falling in love.

But in the end, I think a little bit of my romantic faith has been re-kindle and just for that, I think that deserves a little nod on our blog.

Falling for someone

Someone ask me to listen to this song and found 2 versions. Do we have a preference?

One a day?

New Yorker Songs of the Year 1925 - 2010...


1990: “Love Will Never Do Without You,” by Janet Jackson
1991: “Mama Said Knock You Out,” by LL Cool J
1992: “Rump Shaker,” by Wreckx-N-Effect
1993: “Return of the Crazy One,” by Digital Underground
1994: “Whatta Man,” by Salt-N-Pepa
1995: “California Love,” by 2Pac
1996: “Where It’s At,” by Beck
1997: “Hypnotize,” by The Notorious B.I.G.
1998: “Intergalactic,” by Beastie Boys
1999: “Vivrant Thing,” by Q-Tip
2000: “Music,” by Madonna
2001: “Get Ur Freak On,” by Missy Elliot
2002: “Without Me,” by Eminem
2003: “Crazy in Love,” by Beyonce, featuring Jay-Z
2004: “Yeah,” by Usher, featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris
2005: “Daft Punk Is Playing At My House,” by LCD Soundsystem
2006: “SexyBack,” by Justin Timberlake
2007: “Umbrella,” by Rihanna
2008: “Paper Planes,” by M.I.A.
2009: “Heads Will Roll,” by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2010: “Monster,” by Kanye West, featuring Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj and Bon Iver

Youtube Playlist here

Momentary Art

Sculptures that exist only for a fraction of a second.

Water Sculpture from Shinichi Maruyama on Vimeo.

via kottke

Is it just me

or is Eminem hotter than he used to be?
I mean he's in no way in the range of our Cristiano and David but improved...

Spice Cookies

I made these light gingerbreads this week. Quite good, not too sweet. Though the recipe says they are soft mine went crispy after they cooled down.


Soft Molasses Cookies

* 1 cup molasses
* 1/2 cup soft brown sugar
* 1/2 cup butter
* 2 tablespoons sour cream
* 1/2 cup boiling water
* 3 cups plain/all purpose flour
* 1 teaspoon ginger
* 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
* 1 teaspoon baking soda
* 1/4 teaspoon baking powder

Preheat the oven to 190°C/375°F/Gas mark 5

Put the molasses and sugar in a bowl. Add the butter to boiling water and when it is melted, add to the molasses. Add the sour cream and blend. Add the other ingredients and blend well. Let the mixture stand for one hour in a cold place so it will thicken

Drop by teaspoonful onto a greased baking tray. Leave room for expansion. Use a spoon dipped in milk to flatten cookies and make them shiny. Bake for 10-15 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.

Lists

The end of December is always list time!
Are we making some, should we do a best of 2010? A To Do for 2011?

Janelle and Kanye top the Guardians music's list (big surprise! we were onto that ages ago!)

30 Rock and MadMen are on Salon's top of TV

NYT best books of 2010 (I had wanted to read the Cleopatra one!)

Billboards Top 25 Music moments.

Top 10 everything from Time Magazine (News, Quotes, Stories Pop Culture)

The Big Picture

Photos of the Year
What a way to see the world and the past year...

Oldie but Goodie

From Layer Cake, which I love...

Secret Heart

yes thats right... i like buble...
what can you do, can't fight city hall ;-)

It's not the "Housekeeping" video but...

you can always fast forward to best parts...

I am a Montreal Lady? Toronto Lady?

I am a Parisian Lady

"Une belle série intitulée “I am a Parisian Lady” mettant en images des portraits de femmes parisiennes, dans leur domicile : appartement ou atelier. Une mise en scène très variée, par le photographe français Baudouin sur son portfolio. Plus d’images dans la suite de l’article."

Working with resin and concrete

Dconstruct is based in Winnipeg.
The jewellery is made in Canada

http://www.dconstruct.ca/default.aspx

Cristiano

No words needed...

24 days of cookies

Advent Cookie Calendar!!!

How to be alone

Beautiful Poem and Video

He's climbin' in your windows, snatching yo' people up

WATCH IN ORDER and THE WHOLE THING (its not long)!

So Autotune has been around for a while, sprucing up all sorts of boring media videos.
This one is kind of funny, first watch the REAL interview, then the SONG.
Oh Antoine...
We gonna find you...

Remember

Do you remember these adds? They used to be in magazines and inserted into the local paper. I used to browse them and pick stuff I'd buy but never actually order anything. Seems like they will now be obsolete as the company has gone bankrupt. I completely forgot about them until I saw this article.

Hide and Seek, more like Hide in the US

A little ways back I posted a link about the Smithsonians new exhibit Hide and Seek, a show about artists specifically portrait artists portray sexuality and gender. Seems like the US "Right" is not too happy about it:
"One month on, his dream is in tatters. Last week, after a sustained attack by opponents, including Republican House Speaker John Boehner and the Catholic League, the Smithsonian withdrew from Hide/Seek a video by the artist David Wojnarowicz, Fire in My Belly, which includes a crucifix covered in ants, symbolising the suffering of people with Aids; Wojnarowicz died of the disease in 1992. Georgia congressman Jack Kingston, railing against the gallery's depictions of "male nudity" and "Ellen DeGeneres grabbing her breasts", is calling for a congressional review of the Smithsonian's funding. Katz, who was not consulted before the artwork was pulled, is livid: "When the Smithsonian starts bowing to its censors, it abrogates its charge as our national museum."
More at the Guardian. 
Exhibit website here.

Suspend!

From a fun fashion blog, runway hippie.

Pick an architectural disaster, stick with 60's or make new ones?

A development in London, which brings up some relevant issues.

Robin Hood Gardens: don't knock it… down

Robin Hood Gardens in east London has seen better days, but you should see the monstrosities they want to replace it with

Raise your weapon

DAnce party continues...

Dance party in my living room...

It's Saturday morning, I am in my PJs and nothing spells "It's finally the weekend!!!!!!" with an impromptu dance party!

Please come to Canada...

oh MUJI!

I was addicted to the shop when I was in England.

Matadors...

Sartorialist presents a beautiful Matador

French Sunday Music

Why don't we go to New York...

... and check out the work of Alex Prager; a style of work that combines sophistication and an understated sex-appeal that comes from the 1950s movie era. You can also appreciate that her pictures convey a fresh outlook on motion but with a vintage feel.

Check out the MoMa website for the some of her work and Bio:

She also made her first short film which is featured at the MoMA.

HOT Men: George Henry Lewes

Beautiful inside and out?

George Henry Lewes (18 April 1817 – 28 November 1878) was an English philosopher and critic of literature and theatre. He became part of the mid-Victorian ferment of ideas which encouraged discussion of Darwinism, positivism, and religious skepticism. However, he is perhaps best known today for having openly lived with George Eliot,( pen name of Mary Anne (Mary Ann, Marian) Evans) a soul-mate whose life and writings were enriched by their friendship.

"As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things. - "George Henry Lewes

Hide and Seek

"This is the first major museum exhibition to focus on sexual difference in the making of modern American portraiture. “Hide/Seek” considers such themes as the role of sexual difference in depicting modern America; how artists explored the fluidity of sexuality and gender; how major themes in modern art—especially abstraction—were influenced by social marginalization; and how art reflected society’s evolving and changing attitudes toward sexuality, desire, and romantic attachment."
at the National Portrait Gallery

Copyright and Fashion

New Music Monday

White Squirrel of Trinity Bellwoods Park

I am not a very superstitious person but I do have to say, seeing the white squirrel 3 times has greatly helped my karma.

And on that note, check out this website on all things "white squirrel"

http://www.whitesquirrels.ca/

Rogue Wave

An oldie but a goodie,
(just heard it on a commercial and it reminded me how much I like it)

Something about that Girl

8 1/2 Scenes with Sienna Miller
"
"SCENE 2
At the Hotel d'Inghilterra, just off the Via Condotti—Rome's Rodeo Drive, albeit with the Spanish Steps thrown in—I knock on Sienna Miller's door. She has occupied her modest suite for all of ten minutes, and already it looks like the bedroom of a teenage club chick who can't pick an ensemble for Saturday night. Her suitcase has apparently erupted. Streaming from it, or thrown out of it, are nude patent Burberry ankle boots; Chanel silver python flats; an ostrich boot from Louis Vuitton ("That's the perfect boot; sorry to sound so fashiony"); snakeskin platforms from Terry de Havilland; a 1920s vest worn by Vietnamese soldiers; a blue sequined V-back sweatshirt from Peter Jensen ("I quite love sequins; I think it's the drag queen in me"); an Ossie Clark dress covered in pansies ("a proper hippie dress"); a 1989 STEEL WHEELS Rolling Stones T-shirt pilfered from ex-boyfriend model/rocker Jamie Burke; gray linen overalls from Isabel Marant; a black beaded halter top ("a slutty kind of thing"); a 1920s wedding dress with an arm coming off; Vivienne Westwood vintage tops for Wolford; a Lurex granny-square vest by Wayne Rogers for Granny Takes a Knit; JET track pants; an "oversize doll dress" by an English line, PPQ; black sports shorts with a red heart on them (A. Olivieri from Euphoria, London); an orange alligator clutch from Bridget Romanek. "There's nothing that goes with anything else," Miller remarks."

Spectacle Or Spectator, Visual Art or Dance

Move: Choreographing You

Is it art or is it dance? Leave your heels at home and explore an unusual new exhibition that will really get you moving

First things first: put your bags in the cloakroom. That's not overofficiousness, just practical advice. And leave your heels at home, too. Because this is not your usual stand-and-stare, quietly-stroke-chin sort of exhibition. This one only comes to life at all if you, the viewer, get involved.
On at the Southbank Center in London

Norwegian Flair at the DX in Toronto

Since my trip to Copenhagen, I go crazy for anything scandanavian.

So Conventus is very exited to go check out the DX and its new free exhibition called Construction: Contemporary Norwegian Arts & Crafts

Runs from November 19 2010 to January 21 2011.

Might be watching this on the train to Toronto (not Tokyo!)

As the house turns

A lovely little film about a modernist rotating house in Italy.
(The narriation is done in Italian and is quite soothing to listen to).

Secret Subway

New York's gorgeous secret subway station.
(not so secret anymore)
Makes one wonder what other treasures lie hidden away in the city.

Get your dance shoes out

Things that changed other things

So, as you know jetset, I signed up for this project.
My theme is "things that changed other things". Any ideas on how to approach the book, I have a little over a month to complete mine.

Recycling

"Jonathan Safran Foer's new book is called Tree of Codes and he constructed it by taking his favorite book, The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz, and cut out words to form a completely new story."

via kottke

The Skaters of Kabul

Quite a beautiful little piece about a group of skateboarding teens in Kabul.

SKATEISTAN: TO LIVE AND SKATE KABUL from Diesel New Voices on Vimeo.

Gorgeous Scenery, Beautiful Music and Crazy Tricks

This is my kind of video!



via Kottke

The Room

The Room @ The Bay

Leave the wallets behind ...

Maharajas

The exhibit at which I'm a Gallery Guide begins this Saturday with members previews today and tomorrow.

Electropop

Are we ready????!!!

Tom, our sexy talented Tom Ford is back...

Check the article in Vogue. I - AM - DROOLING.

Should we join and network?

From the website:

"The Ministry of Artistic Affairs provides a unique insight into the art market by curating a series of informative and interactive events exploring multiple facets of the art scene.

Members access a program of events that include studio visits with rising and established local artists, intimate visits with notable collectors, exclusive gallery exhibition previews, film screenings, talks and panel discussions with published art thinkers, and group art fair excursions."

Protoges

Mr. Idenburg agreed that “architecture is a profession of patience,” adding, “For the first 10 years you just hope to survive.”

"IN the video, on YouTube, Madonna is seen laying the first brick at a school in Lilongwe, Malawi. But to connoisseurs of architecture, the real star of the video is the man standing next to Madonna, alongside a rendering of the 40-acre campus. He is Markus Dochantschi, the German-born, New York-based designer of what is called the Raising Malawi Academy for Girls.

For a young architect it’s hard to imagine a higher-profile project than a school backed by Madonna. And if the attention mostly goes to the pop star, Mr. Dochantschi isn’t complaining. He spent seven years working for the architect Zaha Hadid, a larger-than-life figure, learning how to stand outside the spotlight."

"http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/arts/design/30proteges.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1"

Grease song re-interpreted...

Doug Paisley

TO Native
Very much a driving song, thinking of 'him/her'

Sufjan

Gorgeous new song...

Did someone say chocolate fountain?

http://www.sephra.com/

Time Warp

love the tights...

Music

Lovely!

CANstruction

Just finished building a sculpture made of non-perishable foods to support the Daily Bread Food Bank of Toronto.

"IT STARTS WITH ONE CAN. TO FEED THE HUNGRY. TO LIFT THE SPIRIT. TO CHANGE THE WORLD.

Canstruction is using one can as a catalyst for change. One can to represent the building blocks of massive
sculptures. One can to prove that every act of kindness makes a difference. Since 1992, Canstruction has contributed
over 15 million of pounds of food to community food banks demonstrating that we can win the fight against hunger."

From Website

Music

Matt and Kim

I'll have french toast with wall honey

A very strange post from bldg blog.
A house that has been invated by bees and now has honey seeping out of it...

So if we were to meet online would you be my friend?

or would you be called something else.
Susan Orlean (of many interesting things including The Susan Orlean of Spike Jones' Adaptation)
writes on new friendships in the social media age.
Jet set, you and I are Friends Type 1.
How many do you have other other types?
via Kottke

Runaway - Clip

Runaway - Movie Version

a bit of Amy...

Try Katy Perry

Firework song and video here.
The boob thing is a little wierd. Its not my favorite song by her... at all ... but as a message for teens as part of some LGBTQ project its kind of sweet.

Don't upset Anna - just say you're fabulous

Click to hear the Andre clip.

Living With Mies

Living Rooms With a View

These photographs of residents of Lafayette Park, a residential community in Detroit designed by the architect Mies van der Rohe, were shot in the same room in each of their townhomes. The homes share design features, including a floating staircase and floor-to-ceiling windows. Click on each of the photos to hear about how the residents live in their space and what the architect does and does not mean to them

Black Swan

Movie Posters

More Here
via (kottke)

Bad word of mouth?

Know about it sooner.

The Running Game

Oh those London joggers: the city as a game boards.

Dose of Chock

Sometimes a litte dose of chocolate is all we need. Something easy to bite into with crumbles nicely with tea. This chocolate crisps do the trick. They aren't the type of cookie that melt in your mouth and leave you speechless. But those aren't always good for the figure. In fact you definitly need the white chocolate glaze to sweeten them up. Half the recipe made plenty of cookies. I shaped them into bones for Halloween.

Source
Ingredients
1 cup (250 mL) salted butter
¾ cup (175 mL) brown sugar
1¾ cup (425 mL) all-purpose flour
½ cup (125 mL) cocoa


Topping:
8 oz (250 g) chopped white chocolate, melted

Get Cooking!

1. Cream butter and sugar together until light, about 5 minutes. Sift flour with cocoa.
2. Beat into butter mixture. Divide dough into four square pieces. Wrap and refrigerate for at least one hour.
3. Roll out one piece of dough on a lightly floured surface and cut into 12 squares of about 2 in (5 cm) each. Repeat with remaining pieces of dough. Arrange cookies on baking sheets lined with parchment paper. (Cookies will not spread too much, if at all, as they bake.)
4. Bake in a preheated 275°F (140°C) oven for 20 to 25 minutes. Remove from oven then, after 15 minutes, transfer to a cooling rack.
5. Melt chocolate in a 2-cup (500-mL) measuring cup. Dip cookies in the chocolate on the diagonal so that half are covered from one corner to another in white chocolate. Allow excess white chocolate to drain off and arrange cookies on rack. Refrigerate until set.

Classics: Velvet Underground

From 1967.
Best listening to in a busy place but with your eyes closed.

Tallest Man on Earth

White Blank Page

When we were at Type, this played...

Old Music

New Music

Theme songs for Jetset

Rrrrrough!

Would you live here?

more here

What season are you?

Bunnies and Chocolate!!!

You Belong in Spring

Optimistic, lively, and almost always happy with the world... You can truly appreciate the blooming nature of spring. Whether you're planting flowers or dyeing Easter eggs, spring is definitely your season!

What Season Are You?

Blogthings: We'll Tell You The Truth... Someone Has To!

      

Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps

New Angles

"New Angles is a beautiful LED installation that turns human motion into balletic light paintings. Created by the Shanghai-based interaction designers Super Nature, it works by photographing people's movements then dispatching them onto a quilt of 420 LED-backed prisms"
From Website

Thought its more like a coffee cake than a bread, its still quite good. Very moist and tasty.

Recipe via Eggless Baking.

Orange Blueberry Bread

Ingredients:

All Purpose Flour 1 and 1/2 cups

Baking Soda 1/4 teaspoon

Baking Powder 1 and 1/4 teaspoons

Salt 1/2 teaspoon

Butter, (measured and melted) 5 tablespoons

Granulated Sugar 1 cup

Unsweetened Applesauce 1/4 cup (dry measuring cup)

Plain Yogurt (I used fat free) 1/4 cup (dry measuring cup)

Orange Juice (freshly squeezed) 4 tablespoons

Orange Zest 1 tablespoon

Milk (I used 2%) 1/2 cup

Blueberries (fresh or frozen) 1 cup

Pecans, chopped (or nuts of your choice/optional) 1/2 cup

Yield: One loaf.

Procedure:

1. Preheat oven to 350F/180C for 15 minutes. Coat well a 9×5 inch loaf pan with non-stick cooking spray on the sides and bottom.
2. In a medium size bowl sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; keep it aside.
3. In a small bowl whisk together the applesauce, yogurt, orange juice and zest.
4. In a large bowl cream together the melted butter and sugar for about 5 minutes using a hand held electric mixer. (Update: Measure the butter first and then melt it. The butter and sugar doesn’t cream very much. It looks more like coarse crumbs). To this add the above wet mixture and beat well for another 2-3 minutes. The mixture will look curdled but it’s okay.
5. Now to the above add the flour and milk alternatively and beat for a couple of seconds after each addition. Add the flour in three parts and milk twice. So you would start with flour and end with flour.
6. Fold in the blueberries and nuts. If using frozen blueberries, do not thaw it.
7. Pour the batter into the prepared loaf tin and bake between 60-70 minutes or until the bread is golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean. Mine was done exactly at 60 minutes.
8. Transfer the pan to a cooling rack and let it cool for about an hour before you can remove the bread from the pan. I think I did not grease the bottom of the loaf pan well enough so I was able to remove the bread only after about 1 hour and 45 minutes. Cool it completely on the wire rack (preferably overnight) before cutting it into slices. I baked it at after 8 pm, so left it overnight and was able to get neat slices the next day morning.

Saw them live this week in Toronto

Post 500!

The best way to celebrate?
Beavertechture!

Sway

a "September" song... for the end of the month

Art Gallery of Ontario

So, the panel visited the AGO yesterday.
I can't formulate a full opinion until I know what was there before the Gehry intervention. This task is proving to be very difficult as it seems like all pictures prior to the renovation have been deleted, off of .. the internet. Yes, the whole internet seems to be void of them. (Im sure there must be some around, but its damn hard to find, its like they WANT you to forget what it was before). The only reason I'm so interested is because of a very beautiful limestone wall found in the back courtyard which suggests there was a potentially interesting historic building here there at one time.
Since my practice is all about context and narrative, I NEED to know what was there in order to formulate my thoughts. I'm not a clean slate girl. Clean slates? They don't exist .. anywhere. All building sites have baggage. 
Therefore I will post pics of the AGO, from arcspace, and will defer my opinions until a later date.

Spadina and Dundas with billboards by Artist Barbara Kruger

Back of the building, facing Grange park over the historic Grange House.

Water

Evian came out with the 2010 model designed by Issey Miyake
Here is a run-through of bottles since 2004.

2010 - Issey Miyake - pret-a-porter

2009 - Paul Smith - pret-a-porter

2009 - Jean-Paul Gauthier - couture

2008 - Jean-Paul Gauthier - pret-a-porter

2007-Christian Lacroix- couture and pret-a-porter

2005 - Landor

31 Today

maybe slightly better than Tim McGraw ...

Brandon

Brandon Flowers, lead of the killers, solo project.


I love that he's rescued by Charlize Theron.
(remember this is what brandon thinks of me, love that song!)

Classics : Fleetwood Mac

Its not my favorite genre, nor is this a favorite band, in fact I listen to very few of both. But this song ... this song works.

Should we update our domain name?

"If possible, your domain name should be similar to any business name you have trademarked or registered. IBM, for example, owns the domain name ibm.com. What if you’re IBM Canada? Should you register ibmcanada.com or ibm.ca? Good question. Domain name registry is easy and relatively cheap. It costs about $15 a year to control a domain name, so a company like IBM Canada would want to register both if they are available."

Read the article in Globe and Mail

Preparing for 30-something??!!

The "unmentionable" will be happening in a few months...

Started doing a bit of research; a lot of articles on "turning 30" but not much about the next step... 3-1.

I di find that this is my last chance at a working visa in Australia... Past 30, i can't apply. Is this something worth exploring?

Not many songs talk about turning 31... Only GULP! a cowboy song by Tim McGraw.

James

Underwear Chandelier by Pipilotti Rist

Article in Interview Magazine

Another one man show

the song really starts at 2:40, the rest is just an explanation of the equipment. pretty catchy!

Playlist

So I didn't have time to make a compete play list of music for the 401, but this is a start...
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=60782389CF7E92D6

Missing the trees

Because its hard to live in the city ;-)
Lifted these from Gossip Girl

Don't hang me out to dry

Childhood Memories

Lovely application by Arcade Fire.... Involves music, typing the address of the house you grew up in and some fabulous images.

A beautiful yet simple concept of interactive web design.

When sick in bed... need some old school tune

Ok Go and dogs, in one take!

Behind the scene pics!

Narrow

Article in Cyberpresse about two Toronto firms:

Donald Chong: donaldchongstudio.com
Drew Mandel: drewmandeldesign.com

Green is the new black...

According to the Guardian's 10 Lessons from NYC Fashion Week

Are you mine?

from TO

Stars

An oldie but a goodie
From To, to Ny, to Montreal

Rafa and Roger - Contagious laughter

Menomena

from Portland

The Becks ... in an elevator

Coeur

Whats in my chocolate milk?

Milking meaning from the ingredients label

Huba Huba - Why?

Good dancing may be sign of male health, scientists say...

Dr Nick Neave looks at the difference between "good" and "bad" dancing

Scientists say they've carried out the first rigorous analysis of dance moves that make men attractive to women.

The researchers say that movements associated with good dancing may be indicative of good health and reproductive potential.

Sounds of NYC

Doherty Accoustic

Get Outta My Way

Click here to view Kylie Minogue's video

Biennale Time!

A piece Danish light designer Olafur Eliasson.

For more info, check Venice Biennale website.

Pay Off - O'Spada

Clients

Done with text to voice.
Though this is about filmmakers its pretty universal of clients of creative professionals.

Alice?! Alice?! Where are you???

A labyrinth in a cornfield!

From the website:
"The Labyrinth Arctic Gardens is a new theme park concept in Quebec. It’s a giant corn maze where the whole family can explore twists and turns, meeting intriguing and roguish characters along the way, each of whom has a story to tell and invites you to take part. Performances, puzzles and plenty of laughs await you just around the next corner… as long as you know how to get to them!"

Hurts - Wonderful Life

Hurts - Wonderful Life from tonyfan on Vimeo.

Lou - Concert

Well last night I went to see Lou Barlow, one of my alltime, if not my alltime favorite songwriters.
Was the small venue of Il Motore, on Jean-Talon. Intimate place. I would have never found the show if I hadn't been perusing the Horseshoe Tavern shows coming up. Opening was Wye Oak. Both groups have this interesting intimate, romantic and raw relationship.

Lou was/is several key 90's lo-fi bands, true "indie", not the modern marketing term....Sebadoh and Dinosaur Jr.

Lou has a way of just finding the right notes to bury into my heart.


His songs are almost all at core acoustic and melodic. But in concerts and sometimes in recordings they are played almost punkishly. (lover your earphones volume or the feedback might get you).



Paper Girls Most Favorite Song Ever.(period)
From Sebadoh.
(feels oddly revealing)

Sam says

Restaurant Trailer

2 Chefs in Chicago are treating the dining experience almost like a show, you buy tickets not items off a menu. I believe they currently have a cocktail bar and now are opening a restaurant, check out the trailer



"What is Next Restaurant?
Next Restaurant will explore world cuisine. It is being developed by chef Grant Achatz, Nick Kokonas, and the creative team that built Alinea, including Crucial Detail designer Martin Kastner, Architect Steve Rugo, and Interior Designer Tom Stringer.
Next Restaurant will serve four menus per year from great moments in culinary history – or the future. Our team of chefs will investigate, test, refine, and present authentic menu interpretations from cultures, places and times. Depending on the cuisine, meals will be 5 to 6 courses and will include food, beverage pairings, and service.
Our goal each season is to present the best possible menu from each culinary inspiration. We want to take diners on a journey to the foods we find exciting, delicious, and important."

They also work on food pairings at the bar. Here is bubble tea gin and tonic which you might like Jet Set.

Modernist Cuisine

 "Modernist Cuisine is a six-volume, 2,400-page set that is destined to reinvent cooking. The lavishly illustrated books use thousands of original images to make the science and technology clear and engaging."

Oh ... its also 500$

via kottke

Tighrope

Sleeping with the birds

Tree Hotel in Sweden

Dinner at L.A.B.

Just had dinner at L.A.B. with my friend Joe.

L.A.B. stands for "Living and Breathing"... It presents a fun twist on molecular cuisine. Great service and fun food with a sense of humour. Located on College Street, near Grace Street in Toronto.

Here is what we had tonight:
Entrée: Tilapia Crudo with Grapefruit (Shared)
Main (Myself): Asparagus Risotto
Main (Joe): Lamb Ribs served with isralian couscous and ochra
Desert (shared) = Soft Chocolate Bar that consisted of Semi-Soft Chocolate/ Cap’n Crunch/ Chartreuse Gel/ Mint Powder

All of it was delicious and beautiful presentation!